Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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To act is to rest.
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There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
